There's another flaw besides the many flaws that others have mentioned. As the author says, the amount of metadata downloaded is different between package manag

There's another flaw besides the many flaws that others have mentioned. As the author says, the amount of metadata downloaded is different between package managers. Perhaps ideally, only the metadata needed for a requested package would be downloaded. But I don't believe that's what's happening. Alpine is fastest not just because it has a more efficient metadata format, but also because it has far fewer packages than the others.